History ReferencedBy / TheGratefulDead

** During ''The Phantom Creeps'' short presented before ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E03JungleGoddess Jungle Goddess]]'', a scene involving a hitchhiker is turned into a dialogue lamenting the death of Pigpen.

** In a travelogue documenting his trip to real life counterparts to ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' locations, he touches on Black Rock City (location for the Burning Man festival) and directly calls the festival-goers "Deadheads, tech-bros, and Instragram socialites."

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': The original Japanese version has an area called ''Grateful Dead Valley'', though it was renamed ''Peaceful Rest Valley'' in the English localization.

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* Fanfic/PokemonCrossingFlyMeToTheMoon: A psychedelic band exists in the series called "The Dancing Bears", referencing the iconic bears. A character runs a hippie themed store with said dancing bears on the tapestry.

* In ''Series/Friends'', when Ross and Rachel are trying to come up with a name for their baby, Rachel suggests the name "Rain." Ross replies by creating a very naturalistic, hippie persona for a girl named Rain, and Phoebe responds that she knows that girl and "bought homemade soap from her at a Dead show!"

* Mentioned in ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'' when a drifter picks up Joe hitchhiking. The drifter tells Joe a story about how he preferred to smoke grass and listen to the Dead before being drafted to fight in Vietnam; he later tells Joe to call him "[[CharacterNameAlias Casey Jones]]" after the song.

* In ''Comicbook/XMen [[Comicbook/Marvel2099 2099]]'', the Disinterred, whose lead singer is named Jerry, and whose fans are therefore called Jerries, parodies the Grateful Dead's longevity by having ''actually died'', but been resurrected with Deathlok technology.

* Continuing the long line of characters named for famous bands, songs, and musicians, ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' features a Stand named for the Grateful Dead.

** When Ned Flanders is under influence of LSD in "D'oh-in' in the Wind" he sees Melody, Verse and Rich Uncle Skeleton (''Music/TheGratefulDead'') and the marching hammers from Music/PinkFloyd's ''Film/TheWall'' march in front of him, suddenly turned into the ''Lips & Tongue'' logo of the Rolling Stones, telling him to ''"Pucker up, Ned"''.

A list of references, parodies, shout-outs, homages,... to Music/TheGratefulDead.

--> '''Roseanne''': You know what you are, Dan? You are a big, fat guy with absolutely no self control. You're Jerry Garcia without the music.

--> ''It's a miserable Friday Night. I'm SO lonely and nobody will give me a ride to the Grateful Dead concert.''

--> ''I can't afford to study with anyone yet, since the bulk of my allowance goes for glue and Grateful Dead tickets, but soon I hope to be on my knees in a real homo bath house... maybe when my folks go on vacation.''

** Furthermore, in ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion JoJolion]]'', a city slum infamous for pickpocketing through the use of a Stand controlled by the slum's trees is referred to as Shakedown Road, as an homage to the Grateful Dead's ''Music/ShakedownStreet''.